Gleanings of FreedomLate eighteenth and early nineteenth century landowners in the hinterlands of Baltimore, Maryland, cobbled together workforces from a diverse labor population of black and white apprentices, indentured servants, slaves, and hired workers. This book examines the intertwined lives of the poor whites, slaves, and free blacks who lived and worked in this wheat producing region along the MasonDixon Line. Drawing from court records, the diaries, letters,